An array substrate, a touch display panel and a touch display device. The array substrate includes: a substrate; a pixel electrode layer; a common electrode layer, which comprises a plurality of common electrode blocks, wherein the common electrode blocks are operable as touch electrodes; a wiring layer, comprises a plurality of wirings, wherein each of the wirings is electrically connected with a corresponding one of the common electrode blocks, and at least one wiring is each overlapped with at least one common electrode block electrically insulated therefrom; and first bridge structures and auxiliary electrodes disposed in the pixel electrode layer, wherein each first bridge structure is configured for a connection between the wiring and the common electrode block, and each auxiliary electrode is connected with one of the wirings and disposed above the common electrode block insulated from and overlapped with the wiring.
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1. An array substrate, comprising:
a substrate;
a pixel electrode layer, which is disposed on the substrate and comprises a plurality of pixel electrodes spaced from each other and arranged in an array;
a common electrode layer, which is disposed at a side of the pixel electrode layer close to the substrate and comprises a plurality of common electrode blocks spaced from each other and arranged in an array, wherein the common electrode blocks are operable as touch electrodes;
a wiring layer, which is disposed at a layer different from the pixel electrode layer and comprises a plurality of wirings, wherein each of the wirings is electrically connected with a corresponding one of the common electrode blocks but is electrically insulated from other common electrode blocks, and at least one wiring is each overlapped with at least one common electrode block electrically insulated therefrom; and
first bridge structures and auxiliary electrodes disposed in the pixel electrode layer, wherein each first bridge structure is disposed at and configured for connection between the wiring and the common electrode block corresponding to the wiring, and each auxiliary electrode is connected with one of the wirings and disposed above the common electrode block insulated from and overlapped with the wiring.
13. A touch display panel, comprising:
an array substrate;
a color filter substrate disposed opposite to the array substrate, and
a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, wherein
the array substrate comprises:
a substrate;
a pixel electrode layer, which is disposed on the substrate and comprises a plurality of pixel electrodes spaced from each other and arranged in an array;
a common electrode layer, which is disposed at a side of the pixel electrode layer close to the substrate and comprises a plurality of common electrode blocks spaced from each other and arranged in an array, wherein the common electrode blocks are operable as touch electrodes;
a wiring layer, which is disposed at a layer different from the pixel electrode layer and comprises a plurality of wirings, wherein each of the wirings is electrically connected with a corresponding one of the common electrode blocks but is electrically insulated from other common electrode blocks, and at least one wiring is each overlapped with at least one common electrode block electrically insulated therefrom; and
first bridge structures and auxiliary electrodes disposed in the pixel electrode layer, wherein each first bridge structure is disposed at and configured for a connection between the wiring and the common electrode block corresponding to the wiring, and each auxiliary electrode is connected with one of the wirings and disposed above the common electrode block insulated from and overlapped with the wiring.
15. A touch display device, comprising a touch display panel and a drive chip configured for driving the touch display panel in a display phase and a touch sensing phase, wherein
the touch display panel comprises:
an array substrate;
a color filter substrate disposed opposite to the array substrate, and
a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, wherein
the array substrate comprises:
a substrate;
a pixel electrode layer, which is disposed on the substrate and comprises a plurality of pixel electrodes spaced from each other and arranged in an array;
a common electrode layer, which is disposed at a side of the pixel electrode layer close to the substrate and comprises a plurality of common electrode blocks spaced from each other and arranged in an array, wherein the common electrode blocks are operable as touch electrodes;
a wiring layer, which is disposed at a layer different from the pixel electrode layer and comprises a plurality of wirings, wherein each of the wirings is electrically connected with a corresponding one of the common electrode blocks but is electrically insulated from other common electrode blocks, and at least one wiring is each overlapped with at least one common electrode block electrically insulated therefrom; and
first bridge structures and auxiliary electrodes disposed in the pixel electrode layer, wherein each first bridge structure is disposed at and configured for a connection between the wiring and the common electrode block corresponding to the wiring, and each auxiliary electrode is connected with one of the wirings and disposed above the common electrode block insulated from and overlapped with the wiring.
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This application claims priority to Chinese Application No. 201510232915.X, filed May 8, 2015, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to touch display technologies and, in particular, to an array substrate, a touch display panel and a touch display device.
With rapid development of display technologies, touch display panels have been increasingly popular among users. Depending on their structures, the existing touch display panels include add-on type touch display panels, on-cell touch display panels and in-cell touch display panels. In the in-cell touch display panel, touch electrodes for a touch sensing function are embedded in the liquid crystal display panel to reduce the overall thickness of the touch display panel and also significantly decrease manufacturing costs of the touch display panel, thus the in-cell touch display panels are favored by touch display panel manufacturers.
In the existing in-cell touch display panel, an array substrate includes a common electrode layer which is generally divided into a plurality of common electrode blocks, which may be reused (or driven, or operable) as touch electrodes, and each of the common electrode blocks is electrically connected with a drive chip by a metal wiring electrically insulated from other common electrode blocks. In particular, the metal wiring is electrically connected with the corresponding common electrode block by a bridge structure. Since the bridge structure is disposed in the same layer as the pixel electrode, and is maintained at an electric potential that is the same as that of the corresponding common electrode block because the bridge structure is electrically connected with the common electrode block, an additional electric field formed between the pixel electrode and the bridge structure is added to an existing electric field formed between the common electrode block and the pixel electrode, thereby causing differences of electric field distribution between a region with the bridge structure and a region without the bridge structure above the metal wiring, and hence causing differences of brightness between the region with the bridge structure and the region without the bridge structure in the display panel, so that the overall display brightness of the display panel is non-uniform.
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a touch display panel and a touch display device to eliminate the non-uniform display brightness.
In a first example, embodiments of the disclosure provide an array panel, including:
In a second example, embodiments of the disclosure further provide a touch display panel, including:
In a third example, embodiments of the disclosure further provide a touch display device, including: the touch display panel described in embodiments above and a drive chip configured for driving the touch display panel in a display phase and a touch sensing phase.
With the array substrate, the touch display panel and the touch display device described in the disclosure, the auxiliary electrode which is connected with the wiring is disposed above the common electrode block insulated from and overlapped with the wiring, so that the electric potential at the auxiliary electrode and the electric potential at the first bridge structure are the same, and further the electric field at the region with the first bridge structure and the electric field at the region without the first bridge structure are the same, to avoid non-uniform brightness of the display panel.
While multiple embodiments are disclosed, still other embodiments of the disclosure will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description, which shows and describes illustrative embodiments of the disclosure. Accordingly, the drawings and detailed description are to be regarded as illustrative in nature and not restrictive.
While the disclosure is amenable to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments have been shown by way of example in the drawings and are described in detail below. The intention, however, is not to limit the disclosure to the particular embodiments described. On the contrary, the disclosure is intended to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the scope of the disclosure as defined by the appended claims.
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the disclosure more clear, the technical solutions of the disclosure are clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in combination with the embodiments of the disclosure. Obviously, merely some instead of all embodiments of the disclosure are described herein. In light of the described embodiments of the disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art fall within the protection scope of the disclosure.
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an array substrate.
In embodiments of the disclosure, the first bridge structure and the auxiliary electrode are provided in the pixel electrode layer, where the first bridge structure is disposed at and configured for a connection between the wiring and the common electrode block corresponding to the wiring, and the auxiliary electrode which is connected with the wiring is disposed above the common electrode block insulated from and overlapped with the wiring, so that the electric field at the region with the first bridge structure and the electric field at the region without the first bridge structure are the same, to avoid non-uniform brightness of the display panel.
In other embodiments, the structure of the array substrate can be implemented in various manners. For example, the wiring layer is located at a side of the common electrode layer close to the substrate, or the wiring layer is located between the common electrode layer and the pixel electrode layer, or the wiring layer is provided at the same as the common electrode layer; again for example, each wiring is overlapped with all common electrode blocks in a column of common electrode blocks, and a sum of a first bridge structure and auxiliary electrodes both connected with each common electrode block is identical, as long as the first bridge structures and the auxiliary electrodes are disposed at the same layer as the pixel electrode layer, each first bridge structure is disposed at and configured for a connection between one of the wirings and the common electrode block corresponding to the wiring, and each auxiliary electrode is connected with one of the wirings and disposed above the common electrode block insulated from and overlapped with the wiring, to avoid the non-uniform display brightness of the display panel. Embodiments will be described below.
In some embodiments, the first bridge structures, the auxiliary electrodes and the pixel electrodes described in the above embodiments can be made of the same material in the same process, which is advantageous in that only one etching process is performed in manufacturing the first bridge structures, the auxiliary electrodes and the pixel electrodes, without the need for different masks respectively for the first bridge structures, the auxiliary electrodes and the pixel electrodes, thereby saving costs, reducing manufacture processes and improving production efficiency.
As such, with the arrangement of the wirings in the array substrate, according to embodiments of the disclosure, each wiring is electrically connected with one corresponding common electrode block and electrically insulated from other common electrode blocks, and each wiring is overlapped with at least one common electrode block electrically insulated from the wiring. Optionally, each wiring is overlapped with all common electrode blocks disposed along the extending direction of the wiring.
On the basis of the preceding embodiments,
It is noted that, in the array substrate, according to embodiments of the disclosure, each common electrode block is electrically connected with a plurality of wirings to prevent a touch failure caused by the breaking of a single wiring connected thereto, herein, embodiments of the disclosure make no limitation to the number of the wirings corresponding to each common electrode block. Alternatively, each wiring can further be connected with the corresponding common electrode block by a plurality of first bridge structures, and be connected with a plurality of auxiliary electrodes at an intersection between the wiring and each other common electrode block insulated from the wiring, to prevent the touch failure due to poor contact by a single first bridge structure, and further reduce the resistance of the common electrode block. Embodiments of the disclosure makes no limitation to the number of the first bridge structures and the auxiliary electrodes, as long as the sum of the number of the first bridge structures and the auxiliary electrodes both connected with each common electrode block is identical, so that the brightness of the display panel can keep uniform.
On the basis of the embodiments described above, the array substrate further includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines, the wirings are parallel to either the data lines or the scanning lines in the array substrate, and an orthographic projection of the wiring onto the array substrate is within an orthographic projection of either the data line or the scanning line onto the array substrate, so that the various wirings will not affect the aperture ratio of pixel units. For example, in
Embodiments of the disclosure further provide a touch display panel.
On the basis of the preceding embodiments, a black matrix is disposed on the color filter substrate, and orthographic projections of a plurality of the wirings of the array substrate onto the array substrate are located within an orthographic projection of the black matrix onto the array substrate. That is, the wirings of the array substrate are shielded by the black matrix, so that the aperture ratio of the touch display panel and light transmittance of a touch display are not affected.
Embodiments of the disclosure further provide a touch display device.
It is noted that the touch display device provided by embodiments of the disclosure can further include other circuits and devices for supporting the touch display device to work properly. The touch display device may be any of a cellphone, a tablet computer, electronic paper, an electronic photo frame and so on.
It should be noted that the above description describes embodiments and technical principles of the disclosure. Those skilled in the art will understand that the disclosure is not limited to the specific embodiments described herein, and various apparent changes, rearrangements and substitutions may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the protecting scope of the disclosure. Therefore, although the disclosure has been described in detail as above in connection with the embodiments, the disclosure is not to limit thereto and may include other equivalent embodiments without departing from the conception of the disclosure
Various modifications and additions can be made to the exemplary embodiments discussed without departing from the scope of the disclosure. For example, while the embodiments described above refer to particular features, the scope of this disclosure also includes embodiments having different combinations of features and embodiments that do not include all of the described features. Accordingly, the scope of the disclosure is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications, and variations as fall within the scope of the claims, together with all equivalents thereof.
Yuan, Yong, Yu, Quanpeng, Wei, Danping
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